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Favourite non-Liverpool player

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Paulo Maldini
Cannavaro
Desailly
Cafu

Look at that backline. Just swap Cannavaro with VVD. Perfection.
 
Athens said:
Dreamy picked three united platers... Unless he meant the real Ronaldo. So, just the two united players...
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Real Ronaldo not cry baby.

Read Paul McGrath’s autobiography and try not to love the man. Incredible story.

Keane well everyone knows my thoughts there.
 
Lahm
Maldini
Cannavaro
Nesta
Totti

Christ, the Italians have fallen off big time, haven't they?
 
Athens said:
Dreamy picked three united platers... Unless he meant the real Ronaldo. So, just the two united players...
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I assumed he was just taking the piss out of himself in a self deprecating type manner, then I remembered it was narcissistic DB ... he's bloody serious!!
 
The ‘82 Brazil team - Zico, Socrates, Falcao, Eder.

Had a soft spot for Jurgen Klinsman.

Figo, Rijkaard, Le Tissier, Hoddle were players I loved watching.
 
LeTallecWiz said:
Savecevic was not a short-lived genius! Lentini was a bust.
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Calm down. I know you are excited. Read carefully again.

Lentini was a short lived genius NOT Savicevic.

Also harsh to call Lentini a bust without telling the whole story. He had a horrific accident and never came back the same. You will be lucky to find any highlights of his genius before the crash, especially in an age without social media but those around then will know he was a genius in the making.
 
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The bench therefore anticipates that Counsel will not require full reasons to be stated, since those too remain as they were when this question was last aired. 😉
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Counsel accepts that the record is well settled on this matter, and agrees to stipulate that Mr. Best looms infinitely large in His Honor's soccer memory.
 
My_Blood_Bleeds_Red said:
Calm down. I know you are excited. Read carefully again.

Lentini was a short lived genius NOT Savicevic.

Also harsh to call Lentini a bust without telling the whole story. He had a horrific accident and never came back the same. You will be lucky to find any highlights of his genius before the crash, especially in an age without social media but those around then will know he was a genius in the making.
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Excited about what ?

I remember watching lentini a few times before he moved for 13 mill or whatever it was ... a few times for milan too. Not sure if he was genius but defo had talent and confidence. Never recovered as you say ...
 
I have to say - even though he was an utter tool - Gascoigne was great fun to watch - partly for his skill, partly for the fact he was capable of doing some supremely stupid on the pitch.
 
Also didn’t mind watching a few players more adept at the footballing dark arts - not the sneaky twats that play acted their way through the game - but the ones that would happily boot you up in the air without thinking about it.

Vinnie Jones had his moments.

I mean, Souness was the best at it - because unlike Jones he could actually play the game - but there were some cracking hard men around that loved a tackle- or in the case of some South Americans - loved full on assault.

There was an Italian defender in the called Pasquel Bruno that played mostly for Juventus & Torino, but ended up at Hearts in the mid-90’s and became a bit of a cult hero for being a bit mental on the pitch - loved a tackle and loved sinking the boot in any chance he could.
 
Talking of Souness and S.American hard men, I remember an interview with Souey when he was playing in Italy and it was put to him that Passarella had issued one or two threats about what he was supposedly going to do to Souness when their teams met. Souey just stared at the interviewer and said "He knows where to find me". Nothing ever did come of the threats in question.
 
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This is favourite non-LFC players and I've always liked classy players in great sides but not necessarily the superstar in the team.

I've gone for Jairzinho who played in arguably the greatest team of all time, Brazil in the early 1970s alongside Pele. Goalscoring winger with great balance, turning defenders inside out.

Socrates who took the mantle on for Brazil in their wonderfully expressive team in 1982 before falling short of glory v Italy. So cool and composed, he made the game seem so easy.

Another Brazilian I loved was Romario, an amazing talent but rarely mentioned as world class because he could be so lazy but then pop up with a moment of genius.

Alain Giresse who played in the same fabulous French team as Platini who should have won the 1986 World Cup but were denied by the thuggery of Harald Schumaker. A tiny player but so good on the eye in possession.

Maradona of course. Easily the greatest of all time in my opinion. But I also liked Claudio Cannigia in that Argentina team.
 
Dreambeliever said:
Real Ronaldo not cry baby.

Read Paul McGrath’s autobiography and try not to love the man. Incredible story.

Keane well everyone knows my thoughts there.
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I thought McGrath came off really genuine and likeable in that recent bbc Jackie Charlton documentary.

My fav:
Zidane
Kante
Edgar Davids
Marcelo Gallardo (legend on CM 00)
George Weah
 
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